Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Helping Webmasters with Hacked Sites

When the website is been hacked it is an unexpected thing for site owners. You need help from webmasters to prevent the sites from being hacked. When the site gets hacked you must inform the webmasters to provide clean up steps and resources which will be useful.

The important thing is to check the pages which link to your search results are safe. When the site is hacked the information produced by the site will be malicious content, at that time you can take help of the webmasters to alert the users by displaying as warning in search results.

If you give the necessary information for webmasters to clean your websites then it can be soon recovered. In the webmaster tools report you can check the message like your site has been hacked. Google chrome search results can alert visitors by showing the message like "This Site May Harm Your Computer”. At some special reasons you can keep the information in malware section of webmaster tools report.

Injected Content

Hackers try to use the spam content and injected links to the sites as they wish, this becomes a difficult task for the webmasters to detect the injected links which are been hidden. The site may be compromised in such a way that the content will only be displayed when the crawlers visit the site.

When you find such sort of things you can send a message to webmaster tools with details. By using fetch as Google tool you can check the content. At .php files and template files you can look for the source.

Redirecting Users

The hackers’ main target is to redirect users to malicious sites, and then they target all users or specify those who are coming from search engines. When you visit your site and it has been redirected to other page you can confirm that your site has been hacked.

When you check the server configuration files, you can get some information because the hackers’ server configuration files to different content to different users.

The malicious behavior can be accomplished by injected links to your java script of the source code. The designing purpose of the java script is to hide from view for terms like eval, decode and escape.

Cleanup and Prevention

Through Google webmasters tool you can clean up the site. Google will regularly check the site, whether the problem has been prevented or not, but it may take some time. When the review is posted it examines sooner and removes the malware warning very soon.

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